2015: Half Full

July 01, 2015•Rupert Drift

Today is the half way point in 2015, six months in, six to go, time to reflect on the amazing albums that have been bestowed upon us already. Below is our top fifty* so far (in alphabetical order only), you can read more, browse and buy the collection here.

That top Fifty* in alphabetical order

BADBADNOTGOOD and Ghostface Killah - Sour Soul

Bjork - Vulnicura

Blur - The Magic Whip

Bop English - Constant Bop

Bully - Feels Like

Ceremony - The L-Shaped Man

Chastity Belt - Time to Go Home

Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

Du Blonde - Welcome Back To Milk

Dutch Uncles - O Shudder

East India Youth - Culture of Volume

Everything Everything - Get To Heaven

Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear

Follakzoid - III

Gaz Coombes - Matador

George FitzGerald - Fading Love

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress

H Hawkline - In The Pink Of Condition

Holly Herndon - Platform

Hot Chip - Why Make Sense?

Jamie xx - In Colour

Jessica Pratt - On Your Own Love Again

Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs

Kamasi Washington - The Epic

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly

Lapalux - Lustmore

Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire

LoneLady - Hinterland

Maribou State - Portraits

Matthew E. White - Fresh Blood

Moon Duo - Shadow of the Sun

My Morning Jacket - The Waterfall

Nadine Shah - Fast Food

Natalie Prass - Natalie Prass

Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets Grim Reaper

Romare - Projections

Ryley Walker - Primrose Green

Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love

Spectres - Dying

Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

The Cairo Gang - Goes Missing

The Wave Pictures - Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon

Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated At Last

Tobias Jesso Jr - Goon

Toro Y Moi - What For?

TORRES - Sprinter

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love

Viet Cong - Viet Cong

Walls - Urals

Will Butler - Policy

Young Fathers - White Men Are Black Men Too

* Yes we are well aware it is fifty one.... but they are all too good to cut and frankly... life's too short right?